Firsts Quotes
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I think my first album opened a lot of doors for me to push the freedom of speech to the limit.
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A girl's modesty is first noted by her external presentation, but if it's not followed by the confidence of internal modesty, she still forfeits the power of her virtue.
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Perhaps I could best describe my experience of doing mathematics in terms of entering a dark mansion. You go into the first room and it's dark, completely dark. You stumble around, bumping into the furniture. Gradually, you learn where each piece of furniture is. And finally, after six months or so, you find the light switch and turn it on. Suddenly, it's all illuminated and you can see exactly where you were. Then you enter the next dark room.
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I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.
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Just let me do what I'm doing, and then when all of this is up, then you can say how my career was. Don't try to sum up my career in one or two seasons. Let me finish it first.
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This is personal, she'd said. Real. This moment was too, even if you couldn't see it at first glance. It was fake on the outside, but so true within. You only had to look, really look to tell.
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When I first started making photo pieces it wasn't with the idea of a commitment to the medium. I didn't think I would have to become a photographer to make my photographs. I recall that anything could be used as material for art in that era. Photography was just one more thing.
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My husband was a pilot. He flew Elvis when Elvis first started making appearances around the country.
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Love Me Do, the first song we recorded, John was supposed to sing the lead, but they changed their minds and asked me to sing lead because they wanted John to play harmonica.
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My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.
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I am a Maharashtrian and I am extremely proud of that. But I am an Indian first. And Mumbai belongs to all Indians.
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One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.
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The culture of any country is gauged first by its progress in art.
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A firm, hearty handshake gives a good first impression, and you'll never be forgiven if you don't live up to it.
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All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.
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Music expresses first of all sadness rather than joy.
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When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows
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It was 2002, we all got guitars for Christmas and started playing in my garage that summer, rehearsed there and in a warehouse for a bit for about a year. We did our first gig in June 2003 and we played a few gigs in and around Sheffield for a bit then started doing gigs outside of Sheffield about this time last year, recording demos while all this was going on.
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We're going to make the best impression on the traveling public, and we're going to make a pile of extra dough just from being first.
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Major, send a shell first over their heads and let them get in their holes before you open with all your guns.
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Those who place their affections at first on trifles for amusement, will find these trifles become at last their most serious concerns.
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When I heard Bjork's debut, that was when I first realized that I could be a singer, even with my unusual voice.
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Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.
